SPITFIRE ( 7 )

3 Spits & a Hurri

SPITFIRE ( 6 ) Bouncing Czech

Painting of TE566 Spitfire in Czech colours by Todd Ferris.

20,351 were built between 1938–1948
If you were to write a "Czech" for one in 1939 it would have cost you £12,604

AIRCRAFT MOVIE POSTERS ( 2 ) Spitfire!

Tally Ho!
A brief spot of intel on these posters.

They're all actually the same motion picture, "First of the Few" a cheery British flag waver from the dark days of 1942.
"Spitfire" was it's title in the USA & Sweden, Finland, etc (not Germany,however...).

Leslie Howard, a top heroic star at the time had his best ever role playing RJ Mitchell, the inventor of the world's greatest fighter plane, the Spitfire.
Tragically, it would be Leslie's last film as he was killed a year later when the Germans shot down his unarmed transport plane.

HEROES OF AVIATION ( 2 ) Sir Douglas Bader, RAF

Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader,

CBE, DSO and Bar, DFC and Bar, FRAeS, DL, RAF

Bader lost his legs in a pre-war flying accident, but re-joined the RAF for WW2 and became a heroic fighter ace. The Germans, so impressed by his courage when shot down and evading capture for a while, even allowed save passage for a RAF plane to parachute him some replacement tin legs.

A disabled charity was set up by his family and friends on his death in 1982, to help and inspire amputees.

http://www.douglasbaderfoundation.co.uk/content/DBF/DBF_Information/AboutDB.html

Bader's nose art; Kicking Hitler's arse

Bader's 222 Squadron pilots

SHOT DOWN IN A BLAZE OF GLORY ( 4 ) Douglas Bader, R.A.F.

SPITFIRE ( 5 )

SPITFIRE ( 4 )

TWO OF THE FEW

SPITFIRE ( 3 )

SPITFIRE ( 2 )

SPITFIRE!

TWO LITTLE PLANES THAT SAVED BRITAIN

Supermarine Spitfire

Hawker Hurricane